Spokane County reported total 4th quarter retail sales were up by a tiny 0.66 percent, compared with the year before. That's the first fourth-quarter retail sales gain since 2008. For the full 2010 year, Spokane County retail sales fell 2 percent. Avista Economist Randy Barcus…
Liberty Lake-based TierPoint recently announced it's finished a major backbone upgrade. For businesses and major enterprises, this amounts to fairly major news. The upgrade involves full 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections all across the company's network The privately held data operations center and hosting company upgraded…
The tough economy continues grinding on, based on new data looking at the gross domestic product (GDP) of 366 U.S. metros in 2009. Notably, 80 percent of those cities, Spokane not included, saw an economic decline compared with 2008, according to numbers published Wednesday by…
State and local taxes in 2009 took 9.3 percent of resident incomes in Washington, and 9.4 percent in Idaho, according to figures released today by the Tax Foundation. The shares earned Idaho a ranking of 28th, Washington 29th among the 50 states. Washinton residents paid…
The Spokesman-Review business team follows economic development in Spokane and the Inland Northwest.
